{"id":1027,"date":"2017-09-07T00:45:35","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T04:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.activepw.org\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2017-09-07T00:47:17","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T04:47:17","slug":"join-the-manassas-community-conversations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activepw.org\/?p=1027","title":{"rendered":"Join the Manassas Community Conversations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.manassascitydemocrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Community-Conversations-9-17.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4215 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.manassascitydemocrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Community-Conversations-9-17-300x138.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.manassascitydemocrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Community-Conversations-9-17-300x138.png 300w, http:\/\/www.manassascitydemocrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Community-Conversations-9-17.png 400w\" alt=\"\" width=\"507\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The City of Manassas is holding a series of <em>\u201cCommunity Conversations\u201d<\/em> to gather ideas, priorities, and visions for the community\u2019s future from individuals, families, neighbors, business professionals, and community leaders. This is your opportunity to shape Manassas by sharing your perspectives and providing input on key topics such as quality of life, services, transportation, land use, and economic development.<\/p>\n<p>This community engagement process follows up on the City\u2019s 2014 and 2016 community surveys, in which the following 10 community priorities were identified in order of importance.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.manassascitydemocrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Manassas-Citizen-Top-Ten-9-17.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4218 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.manassascitydemocrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Manassas-Citizen-Top-Ten-9-17-120x300.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 402px) 100vw, 402px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.manassascitydemocrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Manassas-Citizen-Top-Ten-9-17-120x300.jpg 120w, http:\/\/www.manassascitydemocrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Manassas-Citizen-Top-Ten-9-17-410x1024.jpg 410w, http:\/\/www.manassascitydemocrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Manassas-Citizen-Top-Ten-9-17.jpg 500w\" alt=\"\" width=\"402\" height=\"1005\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The following engagement sessions remain:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday, Sept. 7, 2 PM \u2013 Active Adults &amp; Seniors<\/strong><br \/>\n\u200b\u200b\u200bManassas Senior Center Board Room \/ 9320 Mosby Street \u200b\u200b<br \/>\n\u200b<br \/>\n\u200b<strong>Thursday, Sept. 7, 6PM \u2013 Families \u200b<\/strong> \u200b<br \/>\n\u200bManassas Museum \/ 9101 Prince William Street \u200b<br \/>\n\u200b<br \/>\n\u200b<strong>Thursday, Sept. 21, 6 PM \u2013 Twenty &amp; Thirty Somethings<\/strong><br \/>\n\u200b\u200b\u200bBad Wolf Brew House \/ 8420 Kao Circle \u200b\u200b \u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b<br \/>\n\u200b<br \/>\n\u200b<strong>Saturday, Sept. 23, 2PM \u2013 Everyone!<\/strong> \u200b<br \/>\n\u200bGrace Methodist Church Fellowship Hall \/ 9750 Wellington Road<\/p>\n<p>You can also engage with City staff at the farmers markets in downtown Manassas on September 16 and 28 and October 21 and 26.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.manassascitydemocrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/City-at-the-Market-9-17.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4222 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.manassascitydemocrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/City-at-the-Market-9-17-300x189.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.manassascitydemocrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/City-at-the-Market-9-17-300x189.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.manassascitydemocrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/City-at-the-Market-9-17.jpg 400w\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"302\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"startContainer endContainer\">In addition, you can participate online through the City\u2019s new\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.letstalkmanassas.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">online engagement portal<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <em>Community Conversations <\/em>will dig deeper into the \u201cwhy\u201d of the top priorities to find location-specific issues and gauge if any priorities are missing from the list generated by the survey. The findings from both the survey and the <em>Community Conversations <\/em>will assist the City in updating its strategic priorities and comprehensive plan. Join the conversation!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.manassascitydemocrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/CC-Relationship-to-Plans-9-17.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4223 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.manassascitydemocrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/CC-Relationship-to-Plans-9-17-300x186.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 477px) 100vw, 477px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.manassascitydemocrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/CC-Relationship-to-Plans-9-17-300x186.png 300w, http:\/\/www.manassascitydemocrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/CC-Relationship-to-Plans-9-17-768x477.png 768w, http:\/\/www.manassascitydemocrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/CC-Relationship-to-Plans-9-17-1024x636.png 1024w\" alt=\"\" width=\"477\" height=\"296\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Manassas is holding a series of \u201cCommunity Conversations\u201d to gather ideas, priorities, and visions for the community\u2019s future from individuals, families, neighbors, business professionals, and community leaders. This is your opportunity to shape Manassas by sharing your perspectives and providing input on key topics such as quality of life, services, transportation, land [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164,66,111,88,39,47,149,40,22,78,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocacy","category-bike-trails","category-community-planning","category-general","category-pedestrians","category-planning","category-public-hearing","category-sidewalks","category-transit","category-transportation","category-walking","post-preview"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activepw.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activepw.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activepw.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activepw.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activepw.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.activepw.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029,"href":"https:\/\/www.activepw.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions\/1029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activepw.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activepw.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activepw.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}